It successfully demonstrates some of the problems of today's media. Unfortunately you put "Here are a couple links about their suppresion of truth on that wonderful right-wing "News" box,"

As a journalist let me be the first to tell you it's not just FOX. It's CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Cumulus, Clear Channel, Air America, Media Matters, Block Communications, and just about any other media source you can find.

The old adage says that freedom of the press is a freedom extended only to those who own a printing press.

Once you realize that they're all giving you a one sided point of view you'll be less affected by propaganda.

Only the last hundred years has American media stressed objectivity. Prior to that the media was owned by political parties and other interest groups.

In every other country except the US and UK it's essentially the same. Media are still run in that fashion.

Does this mean suppression of voices? Not necessarily. Today there are more books published than ever, more television stations, more radio stations.

Essentially what is happening is our media is shifting from mass appeal to individual appeal. We'll really see this in a few years with HD radio. There will be more stations geared to more selective audiences. We'll probably see a rise of independent media just as we have in the independent book and magazine publishing.

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